Winter is arriving a little late this time around, but it's arriving nevertheless. Grab your coat and get ready, as the Winter Dice event begins next week.

Start: 3:00pm Monday January 15th Pacific Time
End: 3:00pm Monday January 23rd PT
Game Modes: Public Multiplayer (matchmaking necessary)

Rules: After completing Public Multiplayer games, every player will have a small chance of receiving a Winter Dice set. You can obtain multiple sets within the event, but you are not guaranteed a drop.


Get ready to find some frosty cubes, share them around with your friends and/or sell 'em on the Steam Marketplace! Please feel free to hit me up with any questions you have.


Cheers,

Winter is arriving a little late this time around, but it's arriving nevertheless. Grab your coat and get ready, as the Winter Dice event begins next week.

Start: 3:00pm Monday January 15th Pacific Time
End: 3:00pm Monday January 23rd PT
Game Modes: Public Multiplayer (matchmaking necessary)

Rules: After completing Public Multiplayer games, every player will have a small chance of receiving a Winter Dice set. You can obtain multiple sets within the event, but you are not guaranteed a drop.


Get ready to find some frosty cubes, share them around with your friends and/or sell 'em on the Steam Marketplace! Please feel free to hit me up with any questions you have.


Cheers,

Hope you're all well and I hope your batteries are all recharged for a cool new year. We just pushed an update that tends to one important bug that popped up whilst we were away.

• Removed bugged player account from the Multiplayer queue.

This is a really weird one so I'm going to elaborate for those that are interested. A user's Steam account bugged out, leaving essentially a ghost in our multiplayer queue. We couldn't remove them from the queue, because they aren't even in Armello, it's just some series of network messages caught in a loop.

By updating Armello's version, we've essentially left that queue-ghost on a now reduntant version, where it will actually continue to exist indefinitely, as far as we can tell.

This is some bizarre, Black Mirror stuff.


Cheers,

Hope you're all well and I hope your batteries are all recharged for a cool new year. We just pushed an update that tends to one important bug that popped up whilst we were away.

• Removed bugged player account from the Multiplayer queue.

This is a really weird one so I'm going to elaborate for those that are interested. A user's Steam account bugged out, leaving essentially a ghost in our multiplayer queue. We couldn't remove them from the queue, because they aren't even in Armello, it's just some series of network messages caught in a loop.

By updating Armello's version, we've essentially left that queue-ghost on a now reduntant version, where it will actually continue to exist indefinitely, as far as we can tell.

This is some bizarre, Black Mirror stuff.


Cheers,

The day has come folks!

The Rivals Hero Pack DLC is out and about, check out the villainous launch trailer here, and the store page here.

Today we're going to go over the Rivals abilities once again, but we do have a an extra little announcment. As of now, Traditional Chinese is a newly supported language in Armello. We have a special little statement in Traditional Chinese down below!

Hero Power: +1 Rot. When attacking, if Fang Slaughters his opponent, Battle ends before they strike back.



Please note that here Fang's hero power is depicted as triggering at Overkill: 5, it has since been adjusted to 3.

Hero Power: After ending his turn on a Plains or Mountains, Hargrave will fire his cannon at ALL creatures entering an adjacent tile.




Hero Power: Spells cast to Yordana during her turn are devoured in her cauldron for -1 Magic, granting a Curse Spell at the end of her turn.




Hero Power: Griotte's Clan Affinity Dice Bonus is equal to the number of Trickery Cards played the previous Day.




Here's a note to the folks out there that speak Traditional Chinese. <3

所有愛門羅的中文玩家們，你們好！ 

我們榮幸地宣佈，我們剛剛為愛門羅加入了繁體中文選項。在翻譯與測試過程中，我們投入了很多努力，但若還有不足之處，歡迎您隨時在我們的論壇上發表反饋，我們將繼續完善遊戲的本地化。希望您能喜歡，並將這個好消息告知其他人。 

願您的登基之旅好運常伴。


Happy gaming everyone and thank you for an amazing year. This is the last you'll hear from us for a few weeks most likely. Be good and have fun!



P.S. [A hot tip from Trent] If you're looking to purchase the Rivals Hero Pack at launch, I've got a hot tip for you. As you may have guessed, the Rivals Hero Pack will be added to the Armello - Collectors' Edition Bundle. If you have already purchased the bundle, once Rivals is released you can simply purchase the bundle again and score the 10% bundle discount on Rivals too!

The day has come folks!

The Rivals Hero Pack DLC is out and about, check out the villainous launch trailer here, and the store page here.

Today we're going to go over the Rivals abilities once again, but we do have a an extra little announcment. As of now, Traditional Chinese is a newly supported language in Armello. We have a special little statement in Traditional Chinese down below!

Hero Power: +1 Rot. When attacking, if Fang Slaughters his opponent, Battle ends before they strike back.



Please note that here Fang's hero power is depicted as triggering at Overkill: 5, it has since been adjusted to 3.

Hero Power: After ending his turn on a Plains or Mountains, Hargrave will fire his cannon at ALL creatures entering an adjacent tile.




Hero Power: Spells cast to Yordana during her turn are devoured in her cauldron for -1 Magic, granting a Curse Spell at the end of her turn.




Hero Power: Griotte's Clan Affinity Dice Bonus is equal to the number of Trickery Cards played the previous Day.




Here's a note to the folks out there that speak Traditional Chinese. <3

所有愛門羅的中文玩家們，你們好！ 

我們榮幸地宣佈，我們剛剛為愛門羅加入了繁體中文選項。在翻譯與測試過程中，我們投入了很多努力，但若還有不足之處，歡迎您隨時在我們的論壇上發表反饋，我們將繼續完善遊戲的本地化。希望您能喜歡，並將這個好消息告知其他人。 

願您的登基之旅好運常伴。


Happy gaming everyone and thank you for an amazing year. This is the last you'll hear from us for a few weeks most likely. Be good and have fun!



P.S. [A hot tip from Trent] If you're looking to purchase the Rivals Hero Pack at launch, I've got a hot tip for you. As you may have guessed, the Rivals Hero Pack will be added to the Armello - Collectors' Edition Bundle. If you have already purchased the bundle, once Rivals is released you can simply purchase the bundle again and score the 10% bundle discount on Rivals too!

Armellians! Hi!

With the release of our latest major DLC just hours away now, I wanted to reach out to you all and share some results from the Rivals Public Beta and what to expect when the DLC ships.

• Over 40,000 games of Armello were played in just 48 hours!
  
• Rivals Heroes were played approximately 16,000 times.
  
• Over 100,000 Banes slain. We don't know if in the name of the Wyld or the Rot...?
  
• The King's loyal and ever so cute guards perished over 40,000 times. Not saying you're all uncouth beasts with no respect for the law, I'm just... sayin'.
  
• And... wait for it... almost 1,000,000 cards were played! Ho boy!

Most importantly though, this was not only the most stable DLC release we've rolled out, but the most stable update to Armello possibly ever! The number of critical errors, NMAs and crashes were so low we thought our analytics was busted!


As we had predicted, two major points of conversation arose within the community:

• Fang's starting point of Rot.
  
• Hargrave firing on King's Guards.

After reading all the comments and fantastic conversations that went down it became apparent these two caveats surprised some players in a not-so-positive way. To better manager player expectations around Fang and Hargrave's powers we've edited their Hero power descriptions to provide more information and emphasis on the caveats these Heroes possess.

After the beta, we set about the task of collating and combing through the analytics from the Beta and cross-examining that alongside player feedback. The TL;DR is that these Heroes have landed right on target in regards to popularity, win-rate, number of deaths per game, difficulty curve, and other key metrics we measure when assessing and tweaking Hero balance. Fantastically, these Heroes will not only bring Armello's complete roster to 20 Heroes (and fill that long anticipated fourth Clan slot), but have proven to be serious contenders for the throne amongst long standing favourites!

To that note, the improved Hero Power descriptions will be the extent of the gameplay changes made to Rivals for launch.

For any of you still have concerns; rest assured, we will be monitoring these Heroes, Rings and Amulets very closely post-release.

We're super happy with how the rollout went! Was an epic couple of days and stability, balance, popularity, and engagement all came in super strong! So awesome to see you all fire up for this little experiment of ours. We hope you had as much fun as we did.

From myself and the rest of the team here at League of Geeks, I'd like to thank all of you for your participation in the Beta. We're definitely penning this one up as a success and a large part of that is thanks to you!

I also want to pass on an additional and special thank you to our testing community whose feedback and initial couple of passes playing these Heroes helped us immensely in bringing them to you all. Cheers, folks!


<3 Trent & the LoG Crew

If you're looking to purchase the Rivals Hero Pack at launch, I've got a hot tip for you. As you may have guessed, the Rivals Hero Pack will be added to the Armello - Collectors' Edition Bundle. If you have already purchased the bundle, once Rivals is released you can simply purchase the bundle again and score the 10% bundle discount on Rivals too!

Armellians! Hi!

With the release of our latest major DLC just hours away now, I wanted to reach out to you all and share some results from the Rivals Public Beta and what to expect when the DLC ships.

• Over 40,000 games of Armello were played in just 48 hours!
  
• Rivals Heroes were played approximately 16,000 times.
  
• Over 100,000 Banes slain. We don't know if in the name of the Wyld or the Rot...?
  
• The King's loyal and ever so cute guards perished over 40,000 times. Not saying you're all uncouth beasts with no respect for the law, I'm just... sayin'.
  
• And... wait for it... almost 1,000,000 cards were played! Ho boy!

Most importantly though, this was not only the most stable DLC release we've rolled out, but the most stable update to Armello possibly ever! The number of critical errors, NMAs and crashes were so low we thought our analytics was busted!


As we had predicted, two major points of conversation arose within the community:

• Fang's starting point of Rot.
  
• Hargrave firing on King's Guards.

After reading all the comments and fantastic conversations that went down it became apparent these two caveats surprised some players in a not-so-positive way. To better manager player expectations around Fang and Hargrave's powers we've edited their Hero power descriptions to provide more information and emphasis on the caveats these Heroes possess.

After the beta, we set about the task of collating and combing through the analytics from the Beta and cross-examining that alongside player feedback. The TL;DR is that these Heroes have landed right on target in regards to popularity, win-rate, number of deaths per game, difficulty curve, and other key metrics we measure when assessing and tweaking Hero balance. Fantastically, these Heroes will not only bring Armello's complete roster to 20 Heroes (and fill that long anticipated fourth Clan slot), but have proven to be serious contenders for the throne amongst long standing favourites!

To that note, the improved Hero Power descriptions will be the extent of the gameplay changes made to Rivals for launch.

For any of you still have concerns; rest assured, we will be monitoring these Heroes, Rings and Amulets very closely post-release.

We're super happy with how the rollout went! Was an epic couple of days and stability, balance, popularity, and engagement all came in super strong! So awesome to see you all fire up for this little experiment of ours. We hope you had as much fun as we did.

From myself and the rest of the team here at League of Geeks, I'd like to thank all of you for your participation in the Beta. We're definitely penning this one up as a success and a large part of that is thanks to you!

I also want to pass on an additional and special thank you to our testing community whose feedback and initial couple of passes playing these Heroes helped us immensely in bringing them to you all. Cheers, folks!


<3 Trent & the LoG Crew

If you're looking to purchase the Rivals Hero Pack at launch, I've got a hot tip for you. As you may have guessed, the Rivals Hero Pack will be added to the Armello - Collectors' Edition Bundle. If you have already purchased the bundle, once Rivals is released you can simply purchase the bundle again and score the 10% bundle discount on Rivals too!

Small patch here today with some a few important bits and pieces. Not long until the Rivals land and we're hype, hope you are too, you deadset legends.

• Fang's Hero Power description updated to mention his starting rot
  
• Removed Rivals from the collector's edition bundle in Skeeve's Store, until they are released

Soar like eagles.


Cheers,